Customer: I would like to buy some Casu Marzu, please.
Vendor to assistant: Release a cheese!
There’s a chemical solution that funeral homes and forensic pathologists use to deactivate the, um fly larvae in bodies that have ripened a bit too long (I helped out on one such forensic case during training). Just soak the cheese in that stuff for a few minutes and you’re good to go.
Seriously, Casu Marzu sounds almost as bad as lutefisk.
Fixed.
You folks are so wimpy.
Ok, if maggot-infested cheese is too gross, maybe mite-infested cheese would be more palatable: Milbenkäse - Wikipedia
Enjoy!
It’s kind of like listening for the bag of microwave popcorn to stop popping, but much, much more disgusting. I don’t even want to think about the “old maids” in the cheese.
You’re all a bunch of whiny, childish picky eaters. If your house serves you this cheese, you should eat it and like it. Anything less would be a grave insult to your hosts.
Anyhow, I’ll admit that I absolutely refuse to eat the Casu Marzu at Olive Garden, much less anything else there. It’s not authentic.
I’ve eaten many a stinky cheese in my day, some so rotten that I thought it had flies in it, but never one with actual flies.
I would agree that some sort of, um, pasteurization may be in order but I would also fear that heating the cheese would break down some of the protein and seperate some of the fatty solids changing it’s whole character. Perhaps a heavy pressing or running through a sieve would remove some of the insects, lack (or overdose) of oxygen might also kill the little buggers.
Although they should probably be left alive until shortly before eating, the wiki article mentions that the cheese can decompose to a toxic state and living worms are an old folk method of making sure this hasn’t happened.
So, yeah, I’d try it once.
Oh *HELL *no!
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Did you miss the part about “boring through the intestinal walls” and “bloody diarrhoea”?
And the part where it says there are fucking maggots in the cheese, man?
Just suffocate the maggots with the techniques already mentioned.
Or make sure you chew on them hard.
I never met a cheese I didn’t like either. Until now.
See, that’s the good thing about this stuff, you can send it pretty much anywhere, I mean how much worse could anything possibly get after it’s been infested by maggots?
On a related note, for those that have so far missed it, here’s Steve, Don’t Eat It!
Appropriate, since this is the one sort of cheese that you’d quite literally be meeting.
“Meet the Beetles”, indeed. (Or, “meat the beetles”.)
Or Beat the meatles…
Somebody should notify that dude on the Travel Channel who’s always in foreign countries eating poached goat anuses and that sort of thing. Or has he already signed the guest book and left?
In a similar vein, has anyone tried fried fish semen?
Well, I would hesitate eating the maggots, but seriously, how is eating the cheese any different then eating other stuff produced by animals? Honey is secreted by bees. Milk is secreated by a goat, then eaten by bacteria, or, in the case of some french cheeses, moulds and fungus.
Besides, shrimp look a lot like maggots, when you think about it. Hm… I love shrimp, but I wouln’t eat them raw and squirmy.
Cheese is bizarre on its own. Take glandular secretions of a mammal, scald it, let some bacteria have at 'er, add a little magic extracted from the mucosa of its stomach… maybe add a little mold for texture & flavour…
Maggots are almost a natural extension of that.
Thanks for the link, Frustrated Wonderer - I have a new show to watch - it looks way more interesting than the two others of Mr. Ramsay’s I’ve seen with the missus.
Yes. Battered fried milt is quite tasty, actually. I believe it’s the entire seminal sac when its fried.